Form of food from grain and method of manufacturing the same.



H. D. PERKY, DEGD.

I}. SPARKS, ADMINISTRATOR.

FORM OF FOOD FROM GRAIN AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 17, 1906.

1,060,702. Patented May 6, 1913.

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HENRY D.'PERKY, OF GLENCOE, MARYLAND; LABAN SPARKS, ADMINISTRATOR OF SAID HENRY D. PERKY, DECEASED, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TOTHE SHREDDED WHEAT COMPANY, OF NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK.

FORM OF FOOD FROM GRAIN AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 6, 1913.

Application filed March 17, 1906. Serial No. 306,690.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY D. PERRY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Glencoe, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have made a certain new and useful Invention in a Form of Food from Grain and Method of Manufacturing the Same; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to' make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a sectional view of a machine which may be used in carryingout the process. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the moldv or form. Fig. 3 is a perspective sectional view of the biscuit.

The object of the invention is the preparation of cereal food in a novel, palatable and attractive form, and it' consists in a new process of manufacture, and in the product thereof, as hereinafter set forth.

In this invention, it is designed, first, to cook the flour or meal so as to provide a plastic or semi-solid mass; second, to press this material into a mold or former through perforations of fine, character, whereby the -material becomes fibrillated or thread-like may be cooked. Or, the cylinder may be used to take the material from avessel in which it is already prepared. up

The cylinder with its contents is designed to be placed in a pressing machine I), having a seat 0, for a mold d, which is provided with perforations in the separable plate 6, which forms the bottomof the mold.

consist of separable plates, as indicated in Fig. 2.

that the interior of the biscuit will be more or less of openwork character. The mold, with its plate e, is then removed from the seat 0, of the press, and, the ends of the filaments being detached by such removal from the material in the press, is placed in a heating oven until its cdntents is dry, and then the contents of the mold is discharged therefrom in biscuit form.

The mold shown in the drawing represents a tin cylinder having removable plane top and bottom plates. In Fig. 1 the bottom plate is shown perforated, and in Fig. 2 both bottom and top plates are perforated. The perforations are finely distributed. It is designed preferably to have the ends of the filaments project in both top and bottom of the biscuit, and to this end, the mold having perforated top andbottom plates can be reversed in the press after partial filling through one plate, in order to complete the filling through the other plate.

The threads, being very slender, break, on the removal of the mold from the press, at the perforations, and the ends adhere to the perforations of the plate sufiiciently long to enable the mold to be taken to the oven or drier, and the biscuit cooked. -W'hen the mold is opened, the ends of the filaments part readily from the perforated plate and, remaining with the intermingled adhering threads which form the interior portion of the biscuit, project therefrom normally in the superficial portion, in a separated man ner to provide a papillary surface.

The product is an exceedingly light and tender biscuit composed of fine fibrillated threads intermingled in a more or less open manner in the interior portion between the broad surface or surfaces of its superficial portion at top and bottom of the blscuit, which are designed to be of papillary charsuch threads. These threads extend in a v more or less convoluted manner, so as to i produce an openwork structure which termi= nates 111 superficial ends or pro ect1ons normal to the breadth of the biscuit. Sucha structure is believed to be especially suitable and tough oi crust-like character. It is de-- for a biscuit, making it tender or short in texture, particularly so atits upper and lower superficial portions, whereby it is designed that this biscuit shall be more readily bitten and niasticated than one in which the texture is incumbent or lies broadwise of the surface and therefore has a more continuous signed in this biscuit to'avoid a horizontal or layer structure, Which is apt to become compact and heavy on account of the Weight 'of the material, especially When no yeast or leavening is employed. On the contrary, its structure is in the interior portion of more -or less convoluted character, and vertical in which the threads adhere to each other more or less. a

Having described the invention, What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The process of making biscuit, consist ing in first, cooking the flour or meal to provide a plastic or semi-solid mass; second, reducing the material to filaments Within a mold, filling the same; third, holding the superficial ends of these filaments in separate position normal to the body portionof the biscuit; fourth, heating the mold and its contents in an oven or drier, and finally discharging the product.

2. A molded biscuit having an interior port-ion consisting of fine convoluted threads connected together in an openwork manner, and an outer portion consisting of normally projecting ends of said threads forming a papillary surface.

In testimony whereof I afiix-my signature, in presence of tWo Witnesses.

HENRY D. PERKY.

Witnesses:

WM. C. BREED, L. S. BURBANK. 

